Frases de Graham Greene (194 citações, página 6)

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim.
The heart of the matter - página xvii, Graham Greene - Heinemann Educational, 1968 - 266 páginas

“O comissário de bordo apanhou o último cartão de desembarque e ficou a observar os passageiros que atravessavam o cais cinzento e molhado, sobre uma vastidão de trilhos e sinais, desaparecendo atrás de caminhões abandonados.”

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Trem de Istambul

“Ao contrário de Wormold, que não acreditava em nada, Milly era católica: ele tivera de prometer à sua mãe, antes do casamento, que assim seria. Agora a mãe, pensava ele, não tinha fé alguma, mas deixara-lhe uma católica nas mãos.”

Graham Greene livro Our Man in Havana

Nosso Homem em Havana

“A transitoriedade era a minha pigmentação; minhas raízes jamais penetrariam tão profundamente em qualquer lugar a ponto de me proporcionar um lar ou me fazer sentir seguro como o amor.”

Graham Greene livro Os Farsantes

Os Farsantes

“Desde que ingressara na firma, como um jovem recruta, há mais de trinta anos, Castle sempre almoçava num restaurante atrás da Sr. James´s Street, não muito longe do escritório.”

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O Fator Humano

“Buller estava lambendo as chamadas partes íntimas com o mesmo prazer de um conselheiro municipal a tomar sopa.”

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O Fator Humano

“E ele pôs na vitrola A hard day´s night.”

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O Fator Humano

“Os princípios foram feitos para serem violados. Ser humano é também um dever.”

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“Amar, é ver-se como um outro ser nos vê, é estar apaixonado pela nossa imagem deformada e sublimada.”

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“Heresia é apenas um outro nome para liberdade de pensamento.”

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“Acreditar que um ser não sofre quando os olhos nada exprimem é erro fácil de cometer.”

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“Sentimentalismo é como chamamos o sentimento que não compartilhamos.”

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Variante: Sentimentalismo é o nome que damos aos sentimentos que não partilhamos.

“O amor não conhece o que se possa chamar de vitória; apenas alguns pequenos sucessos estratégicos, antes do desastre final da morte ou da indiferença.”

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“Preferiria ter sangue nas mãos a ter água como Pôncio Pilatos.”

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“O sucesso é mais perigoso do que o fracasso, as ondas quebram ao longo de uma costa mais ampla.”

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“[Sobre o personagem de Pinkie] A palavra assassinato não transmitia-o mais do que a palavra 'caixa', 'colar', 'girafa'.”

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Graham Greene: Frases em inglês

“Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.”

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Graham Greene livro The Honorary Consul

The Honorary Consul (1973)

“However great a man’s fear of life, suicide remains the courageous act, the clear-headed act of a mathematician. The suicide has judged by the laws of chance—so many odds against one that to live will be more miserable than to die. His sense of mathematics is greater than his sense of survival. But think how a sense of survival must clamour to be heard at the last moment, what excuses it must present of a totally unscientific nature.”

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Graham Greene livro Os Farsantes

Pt. 1, ch. 4, sct. 1
The Comedians (1966)

“The economy of a novelist is a little like that of a careful housewife who is unwilling to throw away anything that might perhaps serve its turn. Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved.”

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From journal kept while writing A Burnt-Out Case (1959)

“[Priest at Hale's cremation] "…our brother is at this moment reabsorbed in the universal spirit."”

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Graham Greene livro Brighton Rock

Brighton Rock (1938)

“Reality in our century is not something to be faced.”

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Graham Greene livro Our Man in Havana

Pt. 1, ch. 1, sct. 1
Our Man in Havana (1958)

“Communism, my friend, is more than Marxism, just as Catholicism … is more than the Roman Curia. There is a mystique as well as a politique…. Catholics and communists have commited great crimes, but at least they have not stood aside, like an established society, and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water like Pilate…if you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?”

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Graham Greene livro Os Farsantes

Pt. 2, ch. 4, sct. 4
The Comedians (1966)

“Can you hate something you don't believe in? And yet he called himself a free-thinker. What an impossible paradox, to be free and to be so obsessed.”

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"The Hint of an Explanation" (1948), Twenty-One Stories, 1954
Short Stories

“What right had I to value her less than the bodies in the square? Suffering is not increased by numbers; one body can contain all the suffering the world can feel. I had judged like a journalist, in terms of quantity, and I had betrayed my own principles; I had become as engage as Pyle, and it seemed to me that no decision would ever be simple again.”

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Graham Greene livro The Quiet American

Pt. IV, ch. 2, pg 242
The Quiet American (1955)

“Childhood was the germ of all mistrust. You were cruelly joked upon and then you cruelly joked. You lost the remembrance of pain through inflicting it.”

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Graham Greene livro Our Man in Havana

Pt. 1, ch. 3, sct. 3
Our Man in Havana (1958)

“Cynicism is cheap—you can buy it at any Monoprix store—it’s built into all poor-quality goods.”

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Graham Greene livro Os Farsantes

Pt. 1, ch. 1, sct. 3
The Comedians (1966)

“I was trying to write a book that simply would not come. I did my daily five hundred words, but the characters never began to live. So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one’s days. One may be preoccupied with shopping and income tax returns and change conversations, but the stream of the unconscious continues to flow undisturbed, solving problems, planning ahead: one sits down sterile and dispirited at the desk, and suddenly the words come as though from the air: the situations that seemed blocked in a hopeless impasse move forward: the work has been done while one slept or shopped or talked with friends. But this hate and suspicion, this passion to destroy went deeper than the book – the unconscious worked on it instead…”

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Graham Greene livro The End of the Affair

Bk. 1, ch. 2
The End of the Affair (1951)

“[About Pinkie's inability to empathise] The imagination hadn't awoken. That was his strength. He couldn't see through other people's eyes, or feel with their nerves. Only the music made him uneasy.”

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Graham Greene livro Brighton Rock

Brighton Rock (1938)

“It is the story-teller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.”

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Speech on receiving the Shakespeare Prize awarded by the University of Hamburg, Germany (1969)

“Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.”

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Independent (London, April 4, 1991)

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